CRITICS SLAM KETANJI BROWN JACKSON FOR QUEER BROADWAY CAMEO. U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson drew scorn on social media for her debut last weekend in the queer-themed musical “& Juliet” on Broadway in New York City. Read more here.
ORGANIZERS AND SUPPORTERS RELUCTANT TO DISCUSS PLANNED LGBT JUBILEE DAY IN ROME. An Italian association of LGBT Christians has said it has received official Vatican approval to make a pilgrimage to next year’s jubilee in Rome, although the Vatican’s jubilee organizers say they are neither supporting nor opposing the event while the figures behind it are declining to comment. Read more here.
CANADIAN MAYOR HAS BANK ACCOUNT GARNISHED AFTER STANDING UP TO LGBT ACTIVISTS. After Mayor Harold McQuaker of Emo, Ontario announced he would not be “extorted” by an LGBT activist group, the latter successfully petitioned the court to garnish $5,000 from the 77-year-old’s bank account. Read more here.
PARENTS OUTRAGED MAINE SCHOOL CLINIC COULD GIVE STUDENTS CONFIDENTIAL ‘REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE.’ Maine School Administrative District 11 voted to review the contract for a school-based health center that may give students confidential “reproductive health care,” including transgender drugs and birth-control prescriptions. Read more here.
HOMOSEXUAL ‘MARRIED’ MEN BEHIND PRO-LGBT OUTLET PINKNEWS ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT. The couple that runs PinkNews, the world’s largest LGBT news website and activist outlet, has “been accused by staff of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct,” according to the BBC. Read more here.
U.S. GOVERNMENT’S ‘PANSEXUAL AND PANROMANTIC PRIDE DAY’ POST SPARKS BACKLASH. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a “Happy Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day!” post on Sunday, drawing backlash, with people expressing eager anticipation for the change in the presidential administration next month. Read more here.
TEXAS NATIVE AND PANSEXUAL WINS BIGGEST U.S. WOMEN’S FIGURE SKATING TITLE IN 14 YEARS, BEATING JAPAN’S STARS. America’s 14-year drought of women’s figure skating Grand Prix champions ended Saturday when Amber Glenn, a woman who identifies as “pansexual,” overcame elite Japanese opponents to take first place. Read more here.
ONTARIO MAYOR SAYS HE WON’T PAY $5K FINE FOR NOT DECLARING ‘PRIDE MONTH.’ A human rights tribunal recently fined the township of Emo, Ontario for “discrimination” after refusing to recognize pride month and fly a rainbow flag last summer. Read more here.
TEXAS LAWMAKER VOWS TO CUT LGBT-RELATED PROPAGANDA IN HIGHER ED. Rep. Brian Harrison, a Republican state legislator, is threatening to cut off funds from the state’s public university system if public colleges and universities continue to offer homosexual-related indoctrination courses. Read more here.
WICKED MOVIE BANNED IN KUWAIT, POSSIBLY DUE TO LGBTQ CAST MEMBERS. Wicked has reportedly been banned from theaters in Kuwait, with some believing the cause to be related to the film’s many LGBTQ cast members. Read more here.
LGBTQ GROUP DISAPPOINTED AFTER MANCHESTER UNITED SQUAD DID NOT WEAR RAINBOW JACKETS. An independent LGBTQ supporters’ group of Manchester United soccer club has expressed its disappointment after specially designed jackets to mark the club’s official Rainbow Laces game were not worn by players ahead of Sunday’s home win against Everton. Read more here.
CHRISTIANS FURIOUS OVER TOWN’S HOMOSEXUAL CHRISTMAS PARADE. Prattville Pride has granted permission to participate in this year’s Christmas parade in Prattville, Alabama – over the objections of many residents who say the parade is not about anyone’s sexual preferences. Read more here.
WINNING: WALMART ROLLS BACK DEI PROGRAMS, CUTS BACK ON ‘PRIDE’ COMMITMENTS. Walmart announced it will keep a closer eye on third-party suppliers to make sure sexualized products, including things like chest binders for “trans” people, aren’t marketed to children and said it will be more diligent about making sure the company is not financially supporting “Pride” events targeting kids. Read more here.
HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL FINES SMALL ONTARIO TOWN FOR REFUSING TO FLY LGBT ‘PRIDE FLAG’ IN 2020. The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal awarded money to Borderland Pride, a local LGBT activist group from Emo Township after the small Ontario town refused to bend to the demands of LGBT activists and celebrate June as “pride” month. Read more here.
MICHIGAN HOUSE DEMOCRATS INTRODUCE ‘FREEDOM TO READ ACT’ TO PROTECT LGBT LITERATURE. Michigan House Democrats have announced a bill that would protect public libraries from demands of LGBT books being pulled from their shelves. Read more here.
CHILDREN IN NEED CHAIR RESIGNS OVER GRANTS TO SCANDAL-HIT CHARITY. The chair of the British Broadcast Company’s Children in Need charity has resigned, after reports that she protested over grants awarded to an LGBT youth charity, whose former chief had previously been involved in a child abuse scandal. Read more here.
EU DRAGS HUNGARY BEFORE TOP EUROPEAN COURT OVER LAW BANNING LGBT INDOCTRINATION OF CHILDREN. Hungary is being dragged before the European Court of Justice on charges of “massive and flagrant violation of several important EU rules,” because the Hungarian Child Protection Act mandates a zero-tolerance policy for pedophiles and restricts LGBT propaganda from being targeted at children. Read more here.
PENN U. GRANT TO ‘IMPROVE COMMUNICATION’ BETWEEN PARENTS, HOMOSEXUAL SONS. Penn University’s nursing program has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and evaluate a new intervention designed to improve communication between parents and their homosexual or bisexual adolescent sons. Read more here.
HUNGARIAN CHILD PROTECTION LAW CRITICIZED AS ANTI-LGBT TO APPEAR BEFORE EU COURT OF JUSTICE. Hungary’s controversial Child Protection Law is set to appear before the EU’s Court of Justice, proclaiming zero tolerance for convicted pedophiles and prohibits or heavily restricts depictions of homosexuality and gender reassignment in media content and educational material addressed to audiences under 18 years of age. Read more here.
KYIVANS ASKING CITY TO CANCEL THIS YEAR’S LGBT PARADE. Kyiv residents appealed to the city authorities to cancel the announced LGBT parade due to their support of traditional family values. Read more here.
ARCHBISHOP OF CINCINNATI ENDS 100+ YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH GIRL SCOUTS OVER LGBT IDEOLOGY. Archbishop Dennis Schnurr announced the end of a 110-year partnership between the Archdiocese of Cincinnati with the Girl Scouts of the USA because the organization now contradicts Church teaching about the human person and promotes gender ideology. Read more here.
VIRGINIA SCHOOLS SECRETLY REMOVE LGBTQ BOOK AMID EXPLICIT IMAGES CONTROVERSY. Fairfax County Public Schools in the Washington, D.C., suburbs confirmed in emails to a parent that school libraries across the county had removed the book “Queer: A Graphic History,” by Meg-John Barker. Read more here.
UMC LAUNCHES PROJECT FOCUSED ON ‘LGBTQ+ UNITED METHODIST HERITAGE’ AT DREW UNIVERSITY. A commission of The United Methodist Church has launched a resource center at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, which will focus on the lives and views of LGBT-identified Methodists. Read more here.
VATICAN UNVEILS JUBILEE YEAR MASCOT ‘LUCE’ CREATED BY PRO-LGBT ARTIST. The Vatican has unveiled an official animated mascot named Luce, who wears a rainbow-colored rosary around her neck, for the upcoming Jubilee Year 2025 in an apparent attempt to appeal to more young people. Read more here.
AIR FORCE ALLOWED ‘PRIDE’ SHIRT DURING SJSU MATCH BUT NOT A ‘KEEP WOMEN’S SPORTS FEMALE’ SHIRT. A controversy arose at the Air Force Academy’s most recent women’s volleyball match when security told a fan that he couldn’t wear a shirt that said “Keep Women’s Sports Female” during a volleyball match against San Jose State and its transgender male player. Read more here.
MARYLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT PULLS LGBTQ BOOKS AMID LEGAL BATTLE BEFORE SUPREME COURT. A Maryland school district has pulled two books with “LGBTQ+” characters from its curriculum amid an ongoing legal battle launched by concerned parents vying for the right to opt their children out of classroom lessons they say conflict with their religious faith. Read more here.
PRO-LGBT THEATER SHUTS DOWN AFTER NEW YORK ARCHDIOCESE SAYS SHOWS MUST CONFORM TO CHURCH TEACHING. The pro-LGBT Connelly Theater closed after the Archdiocese of New York, which owns the property, began to prohibit performances that fly in the face of Catholic teaching. Read more here.
DURANGO SCHOOLS REVERSE BAN ON PRIDE FLAGS AFTER PUBLIC BACKLASH. A Durango, Colorado school district’s ban on Black Lives Matter and transgender flags only survived a few days before it caved to LGBT supporters, leading one lone mom to stand up against the local school board. Read more here.
POLAND PUBLISHES CIVIL PARTNERSHIP BILL FOR LGBT COUPLES. Poland moved a step closer to legalizing civil partnerships with the publication of a draft law that the minister responsible for the legislation hailed as a “historic day.” Read more here.
GERMAN SOCCER PLAYER FORCED TO APOLOGIZE FOR SAYING HE WOULDN’T SIGN A PRIDE-THEMED JERSEY. VfL Wolfsburg striker Kevin Behrens refused to autograph an LGBTQ pride jersey, and was forced to apologize for making a so-called “homophobic” remark about the request. Read more here.
FEDERAL JUDGE DISMISSES DENVER PARENT’S LAWSUIT SEEKING TO PUT ‘STRAIGHT PRIDE’ FLAG IN CLASSROOMS. U.S. District Court Judge Regina M. Rodriguez ruled against a parent who alleged discrimination and a violation of the First Amendment stemming from Denver Public Schools declining to add a straight pride flag in his children’s classrooms alongside displays of LGBTQ pride flags. Read more here.
KENT STATE U. OFFERS NEARLY 150 COURSES THAT DISCUSS GENDER, SEXUALITY, OR LGBTQ+ TOPICS. A search for “LGBTQ” in the KSU 2024-25 course catalog brings up 14 courses, and a search for “gender” brings up 98 courses. A search for “sexuality” brings up 47 courses. A few of the courses overlapped among the three topics. Read more here.
REPORT: CARDINALS ATTEND LGBT EVENT PROMOTING EXPRESSION OF HOMOSEXUAL LOVE. A group of Cardinals in Rome for the Synod on Synodality attended an event hosted by Father James Martin S.J. and his Outreach group, where attendees heard testimonials from “LGBTQ Catholics.” Read more here.
TOYOTA TO SCRAP DEI, PRO-LGBT POLICIES FOLLOWING SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSÉ. Toyota will no longer participate in the pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. In a memo issued to its 50,000 U.S.-based employees and 1,500 dealerships last Thursday, Toyota reportedly said that it will continue to “encourage an inclusive environment where diversity of thought can flourish” but that its primary focus will be on “professional development, networking, mentoring and volunteering” initiatives for staff.
SUPREME COURT AGREES TO CONSIDER WOMAN’S CLAIM SHE LOST JOB BECAUSE SHE IS NOT HOMOSEXUAL. Marlean Ames, who began working for the Ohio Department of Youth Services in 2004, sued the department for sex-based discrimination in 2020, alleging she did not receive a promotion and was later demoted because she is a “heterosexual woman,” according to court records. Read more here.
GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTER SIGNS PRO-FAMILY BILL BANNING LGBT PROPAGANDA. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze of Georgia has signed into law a bill that restricts LGBT propaganda after the country’s pro-European Union president decided not to approve it. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA REDEFINES INFERTILITY TO INCLUDE SAME-SEX COUPLES. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring certain health care insurers to cover in vitro fertilization treatments for couples in the state dealing with infertility. Senate Bill 729 also redefines infertility to require the same coverage for LGBTQ couples who are physically incapable of having children. Read more here.
UN OFFICIAL WARNS AGAINST BANNING ‘CONVERSION THERAPY.’ The UN special rapporteur on preventing violence against women and girls expressed a warning about recent calls to ban so-called “conversion therapy,” arguing that it could lead to the fast-tracking of girls into gender transition and lasting harms to persons who were same sex attracted and rushed through an affirmation process. Read more here.
PROTESTERS SURROUND ALBERTA TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION TO OPPOSE LGBT INDOCTRINATION. Over 100 pro-family Canadians rallied in downtown Edmonton outside the Alberta Teachers’ Association as part of the nationwide Million Person March demanding teachers stick to the Alberta curriculum and not push the radical LGBT agenda on their students. Read more here.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HOMOSEXUAL CONVERSION BILL ‘STRIPS PARENTAL RIGHTS.’ South Australia is poised to usher through legislation banning gay conversion therapy, despite concerns raised by some religious leaders and academics that the proposed changes will remove the rights of parents and impinge on religious freedoms. Read more here.
MICHIGAN TEACHER AND LGBTQ ACTIVIST CHARGED WITH FELONY CHILD SEX CRIMES. LGBTQ activist and Waverly High School teacher Robert Maurice Herzing was arrested and charged with child sex crimes following a months-long law enforcement child predator sting. Read more here.
HIGH SCHOOL LGBT CLUB SPONSOR ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, TRYING TO ‘ESTRANGE’ KIDS FROM PARENTS. The University School of Nashville has faced calls for new leadership from parents, students and alumni who say it improperly handled accusations that English teacher and Gender and Sexuality Alliance club faculty sponsor Dean Masullo sexually harassed a student. Read more here.
REPORT SHOWS DECREASE IN LGBTQ CHARACTERS REPRESENTED IN FILMS, PER GLAAD. A new report by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation claimed that there’s been a decrease in what it labeled LGBTQ representation in films, and it bemoaned the fact that there hadn’t been enough LGBTQ characters in kids/family entertainment, writing that “the overall lack of representation in the kids and family genre is disappointing.” Read more here.
PRO-LGBTQ CATHOLIC TEACHERS UNION ATTACKS CANADA’S MILLION PERSON MARCH FOR CHILDREN. An Ontario Catholic teacher’s association has condemned the pro-family Million Person March, a protest movement against LGBT indoctrination in Canadian schools, and has told teachers not to attend the pro-family protests, but rather to join counter-protests to signal their support for the LGBT agenda. Read more here.
GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES LGBTQ LEGISLATION, ECHOING MEASURES IN RUSSIA. Georgia’s parliament approved sweeping legislation that bans same-sex marriages, adoptions by same-sex couples and public endorsement and depictions of LGBTQ+ relations and people in the media, as well as “gender-affirming care” and “changing gender designations” in official documents. Read more here.
MAJOR COMPANIES DROP LGBTQ+ REPORT CARD AFTER FACING ANTI-WOKE BACKLASH. Companies are now distancing themselves from the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, which is a “report card” of LGBTQ+ discrimination in the workplace. Read more here.
MARYLAND PARENTS ASK SUPREME COURT TO ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN TO OPT OUT OF LGBT CURRICULUM. After the Montgomery County Board of Education removed parental opt-outs for certain storybooks aimed at early education levels, a coalition of religious parents in Maryland has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate their right to opt their children out of educational content that promotes LGBT ideologies on gender and sexuality. Read more here.
CHRISTIAN SEMINARY HOSTS ‘QUEERING THE VOTE’ WORKSHOPS TO ADVOCATE FOR LGBTQ ‘JUSTICE.’ The Pacific School of Religion is hosting the “Queering the 2024 Vote” series of workshops this fall to make a case that Christian voters have a duty to support the LGBTQ community. Read more here.
CA PARENTS WIN BIG: ELK GROVE SCHOOLS SET TO REVAMP LGBTQ+ CLUB SECRECY POLICIES. In a significant victory for parental rights, the Elk Grove Unified School District in California has proposed new guidelines requiring parental consent before students can join LGBTQ+ clubs in elementary schools. Read more here.
FIRST LESSON OF NEW SCHOOL YEAR: PARENTS SHOULD COUNT THE COSTS OF INDOCTRINATED CHILD. Erin Lee, director of Protect Kids Colorado, says public schools there are now required to teach homosexual-related history to students in all grades, starting in kindergarten. Read more here.
U.S. SECRET SERVICE TO SEND AGENTS TO LGBTQ SUMMIT AT DISNEY DESPITE SCRUTINY AFTER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT. The U.S. Secret Service is prioritizing sending employees to an LGBTQ+ “Out & Equal” Summit, rankling many rank-and-file special agents and Uniformed Division officers. Read more here.
AMERICAN ADULTS IDENTIFYING AS LGBT APPROACHES 10 PERCENT. Last year, Gallup polled over 12,000 American adults and found that 7.6 percent identify “as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual,” up from 5.6 percent in 2020 and 3.5 percent in 2012, when Gallup first began conducting the survey. Read more here.
ACTIVIST BEHIND LGBT GUIDE FOR SCHOOLS IN SCOTLAND CONVICTED OF CHILD ABUSE. Andrew Easton, who received government funding to produce a guide for LGBT Youth Scotland, was convicted by the Aberdeen Sheriff Court after being caught by cybercrime officers while soliciting explicit photographs from a 13-year-old boy. Read more here.
U.S. SPENDS MONEY LOOKING FOR LGBT LANDMARKS AS NATIONAL PARKS FALL INTO DISREPAIR. The National Park Service is using taxpayer-funded grants to add LGBT landmarks to the National Register of Historic Places, even as it faces a multibillion-dollar backlog maintaining the public land it oversees. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA BUDGETS MORE MONEY FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO OPEN LGBTQ+ CENTERS. California’s new budget allocates a large outlay of funding to expand LGBTQ+ programs at community colleges, though the state faces a massive budget shortfall. Read more here.
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ ‘LGBTQ+ TOOL KIT’ INSTRUCTS STAFF TO ‘NOT DISCLOSE’ A STUDENT’S TRANSGENDER STATUS TO PARENTS/GUARDIANS. Denver Public Schools’ LGBTQ+ Tool Kit instructs district and school staff to hide a student’s “gender transition” from parents and allows students to use facilities and go on overnight trips based on their gender “expressed at school.” Read more here.
‘INDOCTRINATION’: COLORADO PARENTS OUTRAGED BY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LGBTQ HISTORY STANDARDS LAUNCHING THIS FALL. Colorado’s new LGBTQ social studies standards, which include first-grade lessons on LGBTQ history, transgenderism and the rainbow flag, is age-inappropriate and pushes a radical agenda, some parents in the state complain. Read more here.
DEMOCRATS FOR LIFE REACTS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S POP-UP AT THE DNC. “They’re degrading human life and women for that matter,” Democrats For Life of America executive director Kristen Day said in an interview after Planned Parenthood aborted babies at the Democrat National Convention site in Chicago. Read more here.
MORE CANADIAN ORGS, SPONSORS FOLLOWING LIBERAL PARTY LEAD IN DITCHING CAPITAL PRIDE. The City of Ottawa is the latest organization to withdraw from Capital Pride, after the Liberal Party of Canada pulled out of the parade that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau often marches in. Read more here.
SAME-SEX COUPLES AND LGBTQ+ ACTIVISTS RALLY IN NEPAL’S CAPITAL DURING ANNUAL PRIDE PARADE. Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people and their supporters rallied in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, during an annual pride parade, the first since homosexual couples were able to register same-sex marriages since a Supreme Court order in Nov 2023. Read more here.
‘WE’VE QUADRUPLED IN SIZE’: CANADA’S MILLION PERSON MARCH FOR CHILDREN PREDICTS EVEN BIGGER PROTEST FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS. Kamel El-Cheikh, a Canadian businessman who inaugurated the Million Person March for Children in September 2023, is planning a second annual march Sept. 20 and aims for two million marchers to support parents who are frustrated with school boards and governments that push gender ideology and the LGBTQ agenda on children. Read more here.
THE UN AND EU ARE TARGETING BULGARIA FOR MOVING TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM THE LGBT MOVEMENT. Earlier this month, Bulgaria passed a bill banning LGBT propaganda in schools, prompting the UN Human Rights Office to insinuate that the law targeting gender ideology and other aspects of the LGBT agenda may be a violation of international human rights. Read more here.
LGBT ACTIVIST FACING 37 CHARGES OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE WORKED CLOSELY WITH POLICE, ENDORSED TRANS YOUTH GROUPS PROMOTING PUBERTY BLOCKERS AND GENDER IDENTITY TO CHILDREN. Stephen Ireland, the founder of an LGBT Pride organization in Surrey, UK, worked with local police while committing crimes against children and was ultimately arrested along with a volunteer for conspiracy to kidnap a child and conspiracy to sexually assault a child. Read more here.
MASSACHUSETTS PASSES RADICAL PRO-LGBT ‘EQUALITY’ BILL SEEKING TO COMPLETELY REDEFINE THE FAMILY. The Massachusetts Legislature has unanimously passed a 42-page bill described as the most radical change in family law history. Among its aims are to replace the word “paternity” with “parentage,” replace the word “mother” with “person who gave birth to the child” and replace “father” with “other parent,” among additional changes. Read more here.
CHINESE MOTHER GRANTED VISITATION RIGHTS IN LANDMARK SAME-SEX CUSTODY CASE. The Beijing Fengtai People’s Court granted a 42-year-old Chinese woman, known as Didi, visitation rights to her daughter in May, four years after she filed China’s first same-sex custody dispute for her two children. Read more here.
INDIANA AG QUESTIONS IU’S KINSEY FUNDING BAN COMPLIANCE. Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute is facing legal scrutiny from state leaders, as Attorney General Todd Rokita and Comptroller Elise Nieshalla are demanding information on how the public university in Bloomington is complying with the law that prohibits taxpayer dollars being spent on the sex research center. Read more here.
OBESE LESBIAN DRAWINGS WIN $4,100 PORTLAND STATE PRIZE. Paintings of obese and nude lesbians were among the prize-winning work produced by Portland State University artists, and the public university awarded one of its three $4,100 prizes to student Michelle Jackson for her paintings. Read more here.
HARVARD TO OFFER CLASS EXAMINING MEDIEVAL TEXTS THROUGH LENS OF ‘QUEER THEORY.’ Harvard’s English department will feature a “Queer/Medieval” class in the spring 2025 semester, and the course is described as an “introduction to queer theory as an intellectual tool with which to read texts far removed from the political, cultural, and social discourses from which queer theory emerged,” specifically, in this case, medieval texts. Read more here.
BULGARIA’S PARLIAMENT UNEXPECTEDLY OUTLAWS ‘LGBT PROPAGANDA’ IN SCHOOLS. The amendment to the Law for Pre-School and School Education outlaws “propaganda, popularization and encouragement, directly or indirectly, of ideas and views connected to nontraditional sexual orientation or to gender-identifying different from the biological.” Read more here.
REALTOR AND MOTHER OF FOUR FIGHTS CANCEL CAMPAIGN BY LGBT ACTIVISTS. Julie Mauck is a mother, real estate agent, and parental rights activist who spoke out against pornography in her Georgia community and became the target of a cancel campaign by an activist who falsely accused her of equating all LGBT people to pedophiles. Read more here.
UW MILWAUKEE ART SERIES TO HOST ‘QUEER METALSMITH,’ PAID FOR WITH STUDENT FEES. Sulo Bee, who co-founded the group Queer Metalsmiths and who has been described as a “nonbinary creature maker and world builder,” will be one of the featured lecturers in the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s upcoming Artists Now! series, paid for in part by student fees. Read more here.
U. ARIZONA ACCUSED OF SOLICITING MINORS FOR LGBTQ+ PROGRAM WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. Allegations against the Family Pride Initiative’s AFFIRM program stem from a viral post on X that asserts the Catalina Foothills School District and the university “covertly” solicited minors for mental health screenings and treatments related to LGBTQ+ issues. Read more here.
ALBERTA’S DANIELLE SMITH SAYS CONSERVATIVES MUST EMBRACE HOMOSEXUAL ‘COUPLES’ AS ‘NUCLEAR FAMILIES.’ In a wide-ranging interview with Jordan Peterson, a prominent member of Canada’s Conservative Party, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, insisted that conservatives should “modernize” their view of what the nuclear family looks like, including homosexual “couples” seeking to obtain children. Read more here.
A RECORD 191 OPENLY LGBTQ+ ATHLETES ARE COMPETING IN THE 2024 OLYMPICS. There are 191 athletes – mostly women – publicly saying they are homosexual, bisexual, transgender, queer and nonbinary who are participating in the 2024 Olympic Games. Read more here.
CATHOLICS IN AFRICA WANT NIGERIA WITHDRAWN FROM ‘PRO-LGBT, PRO-ABORTION’ SAMOA AGREEMENT. Catholic activists under the umbrella organization CitizenGO Africa are calling on the Nigerian government to withdraw from the Samoa agreement, a contentious document they say seeks to promote abortion and LGBTQ ideologies in the West African nation, while undermining the fundamental cultural values of Nigerians. Read more here.
COLORADO BISHOPS TO VOTERS: OPPOSE ABORTION & LGBT RIGHTS; SUPPORT ANTI-TRANS INITIATIVES. Four Colorado bishops representing the Catholic Church have taken a stance on multiple upcoming ballot initiatives, vocally opposing measures promoting abortion, same-sex marriage and measures that would negatively impact parental rights. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS WATER DOWN BILL AGAINST CHILD PROSTITUTION AFTER PRESSURE FROM LGBT ACTIVISTS. LGBT activists testified before the legislature that a bill making prostitution activities with a minor a felony would be “overly punitive,” would “disproportionately impact marginalized communities,” and would criminalize members of the so-called “LGBTQ community.” Read more here.
ONE MILLION MOMS CONDEMN DISNEY+ ‘STAR WARS’ SERIES FEATURING COVEN OF LESBIAN SPACE WITCHES PROCREATING. Disney+’s new series, “Star Wars: The Acolyte” promotes LGBT themes and witchcraft, and it sparked controversy for its portrayal of lesbian characters using supernatural elements to conceive children. Read more here.
DISNEY CO-SPONSORED NAKED LGBTQ PRIDE PARADES FOR KIDS. A Disney whistleblower released internal documents to journalist James O’Keefe that revealed the Walt Disney Company promoted LGBTQ children’s events that featured naked adult males and polysexual virtual hangouts. Read more here.
CDC JOINS PFIZER AFFILIATE IN SPONSORING PRO-LGBT PUBLIC SCHOOL EVENT FOR FIFTH GRADERS. A pharmaceutical company linked to Pfizer spent thousands to sponsor an LGBT event through the Chicago Public Schools that taught kids how to present themselves as the opposite sex without their parents knowing. Read more here.
O’KEEFE DISNEY EXPOSÉ: EXEC SAYS ‘BOB IGER ISN’T AXING LGBTQ CONTENT AT ALL,’ DRAG QUEENS INEVITABLE AT PARKS. A new video from reporter James O’Keefe appears to show a Disney executive saying he wants more LGBTQ content for kids and would like to see drag queens at Disneyland one day. Read more here.
SAN FRANCISCO PRIDE PARADE FEATURES PUBLIC NUDITY AROUND KIDS. Corporations and civic organizations donated mega dollars to the recent San Francisco Pride Parade, where nude adults walked around in front of children and men performed sex acts in a “Fetish Zone.” Read more here.
POLAND’S FIRST QUEER MUSEUM TO OPEN IN WARSAW WITH SUPPORT OF CITY HALL. The queer museum will document the history of the LGBT+ community and will open later this year in Warsaw with the backing of the municipal authorities. Read more here.
MAJOR RURAL RETAILER TRACTOR SUPPLY DITCHES LGBT ACTIVISM AFTER BACKLASH. In what has been described as an “extraordinary about-face,” the massive rural supply merchant Tractor Supply Company has dropped its support of extreme left-wing causes, including the LGBTQ agenda. Read more here.
LGBTQ ACTIVISTS ERUPT IN FURY AFTER ‘HOMOPHOBIC’ CHRISTIAN KORBIN ALBERT MAKES U.S. OLYMPIC WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM. The U.S. national women’s soccer team coach Emma Hayes announced the 18-player roster of players for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, and LGBT activists are erupting in anger about the openly Christian Korbin Albert making the team. Read more here.
CANADIAN UNIVERSITY OFFERS ‘DRAG’ CLASSES FOR KIDS AT ANTI-FAMILY SUMMER CAMP ON A REMOTE ISLAND. The University of British Columbia announced “UBC CampOUT!” which is being described as a “leadership and learning summer camp for queer, trans, two-Spirit, questioning and allied youth from across BC & the Yukon.” Read more here.
THESE 63 COMPANIES CELEBRATE ‘PRIDE’ IN LGBTQ CONSUMERS. This Pride Month, many companies continued to signal support for and seek the business of LGBTQ individuals by advertising Pride-themed merchandise on their websites. Others discreetly showed their support by not featuring Pride-related products on homepages but tucking away statements of support elsewhere on their websites. Read more here.
MANDATORY SOLIDARITY? EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SET TO HOST LGBT ‘INCLUSIVITY’ INITIATIVES. Ahead of the planned first sitting of the newly elected European Parliament, moves are underway to ensure that it is a more ‘LGBT inclusive’ workplace, according to leaked internal emails seen by The European Conservative. Read more here.
LEGO CELEBRATES LGBTQIA PRIDE MONTH WITH DRAG QUEENS AND FURRIES. The children’s toy company is celebrating LGBTQ+ pride month with an animated video depicting a parade of minifigures that include drag queens, furries, a Village People-style cowboy and the rainbow-colored cast of LEGO’s “Everything is Awesome” pride set for kids. See more here.
JORDAN PETERSON CALLS OUT CANADIAN SCHOOLS FOR PUSHING ‘PRIDE’ MONTH PROPAGANDA, SAYS IT ‘HAS TO STOP.’ Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson said LGBT indoctrination in Canadian schools “has to stop” after a concerned citizen posted a photo of Grade 3 students being taught all about “Drag” “Kings” and “Queens.” Read more here.
NAMIBIAN COURT DECLARES LAWS BANNING HOMOSEXUAL SEX UNCONSTITUTIONAL. A high court in Namibia declared two colonial-era laws that criminalized same-sex acts between men unconstitutional. Read more here.
COUNTRY OF GEORGIA TO IMPOSE FINES FOR LGBT PROMOTION. The Georgian parliament will consider a package of bills imposing administrative penalties for promoting non-traditional gender identities and same-sex relationships, with fines reaching $870 and $1,000 for the targeting of minors. Read more here.
LGBT RESOURCE CENTER ANNOUNCES CLOSURE AMIDST DEI CHANGES. The University of Utah’s LGBT Resource Center announced its closure via an Instagram post in the wake of an anti-DEI bill that restricts Utah schools from incorporating diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in their institutions. Read more here.
SRI LANKA COURT BLOCKS GENDER EQUALITY BILL. Sri Lanka’s highest court has shot down a government bill seeking gender equality, arguing it could set a legal precedent for the decriminalization of homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Read more here.
NYC COUNCIL PUSHES IVF COVERAGE FOR HOMOSEXUAL MEN. The New York City Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus is pushing Mayor Eric Adams to expand in vitro fertilization coverage to homosexual men who work for the city. Currently, the city’s health plan only covers IVF cycles for employees, females and males who have female partners, diagnosed with infertility. Read more here.
BIDEN’S TITLE IX RULE BLOCKED BY JUDGE IN SIX ADDITIONAL STATES. A federal judge temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students in six additional states, dealing another setback for a policy that has been under legal attack by Republican attorneys general. Read more here.
LA CITY COUNCIL: U-TURN SIGNS ARE ANTI-GAY. A U-turn sign was removed from a Los Angeles neighborhood because the LGBT community said the street sign was anti-homosexual and targeted the LGBT community. Read more here.
BIDEN’S INTEL COMMUNITY IS CELEBRATING PRIDE MONTH WITH FREE TRANS FLAG MANICURES, ‘FILIPINX’ LECTURES. The top intelligence agency in the United States is celebrating pride month by inviting agents to have the transgender flag painted on their nails, participate in a “Pride Ally Challenge,” and learn from a “non-binary,” “Filipinx” activist who has taught children about her non-binary identity. Read more here.
VICTORY: ONTARIO CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD UPHOLDS BAN ON FLYING LGBT ‘PRIDE’ FLAG. In a victory for the pro-family movement and church teaching, an Ontario Catholic school board voted down a motion to fly non-governmental flags for various secular initiatives such as the LGBT pride flag. Read more here.
WOMAN FIRED FOR ‘STRAIGHT PRIDE’ POST. An Ohio news station employee, Madonna Chism Pinkard, was fired for a social media post joking about “straight pride” in response to LGBTQ pride month in June, stating, “Celebrate straight pride. It’s natural, it has worked for thousands of years, and you can make babies!” Read more here.
BOOKSTORE SETS UP LGBT GROOMING TABLE FOR KIDS. Novel Bookstore, in Memphis, Tennessee, is facing outrage from families and conservatives over its table filled with LGBT materials and storybooks designed for children, including such titles as “Leo and the Pink Marker,” “It’s Pride, Baby!” and “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.” Read more here.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY PARENTS BRING BABIES, ELEMENTARY SCHOOLERS TO KIDS’ PRIDE PARADE. Hundreds of parents brought their children, as young as babies and toddlers, to wave rainbow flags, pose with a drag queen, and do LGBTQ-themed crafts at the “Kids’ Pride Parade and Street Fair” in Montgomery County, Maryland. Read more here.
ALBERTA TOWN STARTS PETITION TO REMOVE RAINBOW CROSSWALKS, ‘PRIDE’ FLAGS FROM MUNICIPAL PROPERTY. Residents of Barrhead, Alberta, have launched a petition to remove all LGBT rainbow crosswalks and pride flags from municipal property, similar to a motion passed in the nearby town of Westlock earlier this year. Read more here.
B.C. SCHOOL DISTRICT HOSTS PRIDE PARADE FOR CHILDREN WHILE KEEPING PARENTS IN THE DARK. Children as young as five years old marched in a Pride parade approved by Vancouver Island’s Sooke School District 62. Read more here.
IDAHO BAR CELEBRATES ‘HETEROSEXUAL AWESOMENESS MONTH,’ NOT PRIDE. Old State Saloon, a bar in Eagle, Idaho, announced on Facebook that “June will be OSS’s inaugural Heterosexual Awesomeness Month!” and urged the public to “come join us all month to celebrate heterosexuals, for without them, none of us would be here!” Read more here.
AS MISS MARYLAND, THIS MAN IN A DRESS WILL INTERACT WITH KIDS. The Miss Maryland USA pageant crowned a man who goes by the name of Bailey Anne Kennedy and who wears large prosthetic breasts. Read more here.
NAVY SEALS UNDER FIRE FOR PROMOTING PRIDE MONTH. The U.S. Navy SEALs marked the start of pride month by posting a rainbow-colored graphic reading: Dignity, Service, Respect, Equality, Pride, and the blowback was so severe that Naval Special Warfare Command limited comments on its social media pages. Read more here.
COLLEGE ‘GENDER-AFFIRMING’ PROGRAM WILL TEACH HOW TO SNEEZE LIKE OPPOSITE SEX. A private institution in Albany, New York, Russell Sage College, plans to offer a “gender-affirming” voice program starting next spring, in an effort to teach “gender-diverse individuals” how to sneeze, cough and modify their voices to “match their identities.” Read more here.
MUSLIM SOCCER PLAYER SUSPENDED BY FRENCH LEAGUE FOR COVERING UP PRO-LGBT MESSAGE ON JERSEY. The French Ligue de Football Professional suspended midfielder Mohamed Camara of AS Monaco for four games for covering up an LGBT message on his jersey during a game. Read more here.
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH LOSES 1 MILLION MEMBERS IN A SINGLE DAY OVER LGBT AFFIRMATION. The United Methodist Church lost more than a million members in one fell swoop last week, with a large West African conference voting to leave the organization due to its acceptance of LGBT clergy and marriages. Read more here.
KIDS’ YOUTUBER ‘MS. RACHEL’ FACES BACKLASH FOR PRIDE MONTH VIDEO. Ms. Rachel, whose real identity is 41-year-old Rachel Accurso, has a huge YouTube following on her “toddler learning” YouTube channel and nearly five million on TikTok, where the controversial video has been viewed more than three million times. Read more here.
FBI AGENTS MARCH, WAVE LGBTQ FLAGS AT CALIFORNIA ‘PRIDE’ PARADE. At least a dozen uniformed FBI agents, some carrying handguns, marched in West Hollywood’s annual Pride parade. Read more here.
SAME-SEX JAPAN DATING REALITY SHOW ‘THE BOYFRIEND’ LAUNCHED. The first Japanese same-sex dating reality TV series, “The Boyfriend”, will feature men living together for a month at a beach house, despite Japan’s socially conservative culture. Read more here.
VA HOSPITAL REPLACES AMERICAN FLAG WITH LGBT FLAG. The American flag was reportedly removed and replaced with a pride flag inside the VA medical center in Orlando, Florida, and a sign was posted asking veterans to provide their preferred pronouns. Read more here.
COMPANIES TO SCALE BACK LGBT CAMPAIGNS FOR PRIDE AFTER BUD LIGHT, TARGET BOYCOTTS LAST YEAR: REPORT. As Pride Month begins this year, many companies will reportedly be scaling back their LGBTQ+ advocacy campaigns because of the notable market declines and loss of value from last year’s nationwide boycotts. Read more here.
SCHOLASTIC ENCOURAGES TEACHERS TO ‘DISRUPT THE STATUS QUO’ WITH LGBT BOOKS FOR PRIDE MONTH. In its recently released 2024 guide for the annual “Read With Pride” initiative, Scholastic asserts that educators and caregivers “absolutely know queer children” in their classrooms, libraries, and communities, regardless of whether these children are out to themselves or others. Read more here.
BIDEN STATE DEPARTMENT SPENDING MILLIONS ON FOREIGN LGBTQ EVENTS AS ‘PRIDE MONTH’ APPROACHES. President Joe Biden’s State Department bankrolled a homosexual film festival, an LGBTQ community conference and other pride events in Australia, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria in the lead-up to June, according to grant records. Read more here.
CONSERVATIVE INSTITUTE HOSTS ‘EX-GAY VISIBILITY DAY’: ‘STORIES THAT DESERVE TO BE HEARD.’ The Ruth Institute hosted an “Ex-Gay Visibility Day” to counter pride month festivities and acknowledge the many people who have left the LGBT identity behind. Read more here.
WALMART DOUBLES DOWN ON PRIDE MONTH; WILL SELL HOMOSEXUAL-THEMED PRODUCTS. The nation’s largest retailer posted a pride month message on its Instagram account and launched a new collection with products like a notebook that says “beyond gender” and a tote bag that says “tote gay.” Read more here.
CATHOLIC GROUP LAUNCHES PARENT-LED EFFORT TO ROOT OUT CHILDREN’S LGBT BOOKS FROM LIBRARIES AHEAD OF PRIDE MONTH. CatholicVote, a nonprofit focused on promoting Catholic values in public life, will debut its third annual “Hide the Pride” campaign on June 1, and it will urge parents to rid their local taxpayer-funded library’s children’s section of sexualized and gender-related books. Read more here.
DEI INC. EXPOSED: CANADIAN LIBERALS SPENT TENS OF MILLIONS ENRICHING DIVERSITY CONSULTANTS. Canadian taxpayers have been billed millions to enrich the LGBT agenda, according to a True North analysis released to Conservative MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay detailing diversity, equity and inclusion contracts across dozens of federal ministries going back to Jan. 1, 2019. Read more here. Read more here.
19 DEMOCRAT STATE ATTYS. GEN. OPPOSE GIVING KIDS OPT-OUT OPTION FROM LGBT BOOKS. More than a dozen Democrat state attorneys general have sided with a major school district as it continues to face litigation for requiring students beginning in preschool to read books promoting LGBT ideology without allowing parents to opt their children out of such instruction. read more here.
PARIS 2024 INAUGURATES GAMES’ PRIDE HOUSE. Officials of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics have designated a “Pride House” at a barge on the River Seine, to promote “inclusion for and through sport.” The concept was banned at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, when spaces were opened outside Russia. Read more here.
COLORADO MIDDLE SCHOOL REQUIRES TEACHERS TO SHOW LGBTQ+ ‘DAY OF SILENCE’ VIDEO TO STUDENTS. Campus Middle School in the municipality of Greenwood Village required staff to show a video and distribute worksheets and a list of activities encouraging students to participate in the LGBTQ+ “Day of Silence.” Read more here.
NBC MARKS PRIDE MONTH WITH DOCUMENTARY ON ‘QUEER’ ANIMALS. The LGBTQ animal series “Queer Planet” will premiere on June 6 on the media company’s streaming service Peacock, with a new nature documentary celebrating “queer” animals. Read more here.
CANADA’S INTELLIGENCE AGENCY CLASSIFIES OPPONENTS OF LGBT GENDER IDEOLOGY AS A ‘VIOLENT THREAT.’ Canada’s intelligence agency in a recent report claimed that Canadians who are opposed to extreme forms of LGBT gender ideology, which includes those who simply believe that one can be only a man or a woman, form the “anti-gender movement” that it claims could pose an ongoing “violent threat” during the coming year. Read more here.
SCHOOL HIRES DRAG QUEEN FOR ‘PRIDE PROM.’ Howard County High School, Maryland is holding a prom – but only for homosexual students and their allies – which will be emceed by a drag queen. Read more here.
NYC SUED FOR DENYING IVF COVERAGE TO HOMOSEXUAL MALE COUPLES. The same-sex couple’s lawsuit argues that the city’s exclusion of homosexual men from being eligible for IVF benefits violates Title VII, the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14th Amendment and New York state and New York City human rights laws. Read more here.
TARGET LIMITING LGBTQ-THEMED MERCHANDISE FOR ‘PRIDE MONTH’ AFTER MASSIVE BLOWBACK. Target said it will only offer Pride-themed items in select stores after having sold the merchandise in every one of its locations across America for the past ten years. Items that received backlash included “swimsuits designed for use by some trans women and designs from a company that makes Satanic-themed LGBTQ+ merchandise.” Read more here.
THE UK COUNCIL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY (UKCP) HAS ENDED ITS SUPPORT FOR THE COALITION AGAINST CONVERSION THERAPY, CITING CONCERNS ABOUT CHILDREN. Explaining the decision, UKCP Chairman Dr. Christian Buckland admitted the pro-trans group’s call for a universal ban on so-called conversion therapy risked compromising the safety of under-18s. Read more here.
PRO-LGBT VATICAN AMBASSADOR TO KEYNOTE CATHOLIC COLLEGE GRADUATION. Ambassador Joe Donnelly, who as a former U.S. senator voted to protect taxpayer funding of abortion giant Planned Parenthood and supported the LGBT agenda, will reportedly keynote Calumet College of St. Joseph’s graduation ceremony. Read more here.
TWO RUSSIAN ONLINE FILM DISTRIBUTORS CHARGED UNDER ‘LGBT PROPAGANDA’ LAW. Two Russian online film distributors, including a company owned by Nasdaq-listed internet giant Yandex, have been charged with offenses under the country’s “LGBT propaganda” law. Read more here.
THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH HELD A HISTORIC VOTE IN FAVOR OF LGBT INCLUSION. At the United Methodist General Conference, the church’s global legislative body voted to overturn every ban on LGBTQ people, including a new definition of marriage as a lifelong covenant between “two people of faith,” rather than solely between a man and a woman, and a repeal of its ban on LGBTQ clergy. Read more here.
UK: LGBT LOBBY GROUP FALLS FURTHER FROM GRACE FOLLOWING TRANS REPORT. Sport England has concluded that membership of Stonewall, Britain’s most high-profile LGBT charity and lobby group, is no longer ‘‘value for money,” especially since it imposed a diversity of champions scheme with emphasis on pronouns and gender-neutral spaces. Read more here.
CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON NATIONAL CANADIAN MONUMENT TO HONOR 2SLGBTQ+ COMMUNITY. Construction is underway for a national monument in downtown Ottawa recognizing the discrimination faced by 2SLGBTQ+ people across the country. Read more here.
71 PERCENT WANT DISNEY TO END LGBTQ AGENDA, BRAND IN FREEFALL. According to a poll taken in early 2021 — when Disney was a company dedicated to protecting the innocence of small children and not attempting to “queer” them using drag queens, gay sex, transvestites, and transsexuals — Disney enjoyed a +56 favorability rating. But now, Rasmussen Reports discovered that 71 percent of those polled want Disney to cease grooming small children. Read more here.
RECRUIT MORE QUEER, TRANS SCHOLARS TO HELP ENVIRONMENT: UMINN REPORT. A new University of Minnesota report advocates for more “2SLGBTQIA+” individuals in environmental work, arguing their communities are disproportionately harmed by pollution and natural disasters. Read more here.
UNITED METHODISTS IN US REPEAL LONGSTANDING BAN ON LGBT CLERGY. United Methodist delegates in the U.S. repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBT clergy with no debate, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Read more here.
GLAAD COMPLAINS ABOUT ‘CONCERNING’ DROP IN LGBTQ CHARACTERS ON TV, DEMANDS HOLLYWOOD CREATE MORE ‘INCLUSIVE’ CONTENT. The number of LGBTQ characters in Hollywood TV shows fell more than 20 percent during the 2023-24 season. GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) chastised Hollywood studios for failing to create more gay and transgender characters. Read more here.
CALIF. GROUP LAUNCHES BALLOT INITIATIVE TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM LGBT IDEOLOGY. A group of concerned parents has begun a program called Protect Kids California, seeking to protect children from extreme LGBT ideology. Read more here.
BILL THAT WOULD BAN PRIDE FLAGS IN SCHOOLS FAILS IN GOP-CONTROLLED TN SENATE. The Republican-led Tennessee state Senate failed to pass a bill that would ban the display of ideological and political flags, including pride flags, in public schools across the state. Read more here.
LGBT TRUMPS RELIGION IN U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT. The U.S. State Department has released its annual Human Rights Report criticizing other countries for their conservative stances on human sexuality and sexual and reproductive rights (SRH). Read more here.
DOMINICA HIGH COURT OVERTURNS BAN ON SAME-SEX RELATIONS. Dominica’s High Court has overturned a ban on consensual same-sex relations in the Caribbean island nation, ruling parts of the law that criminalized same-sex activity went against the country’s constitution. Read more here.
MEGAN RAPINOE TO PRODUCE TV SERIES ON LESBIAN SOCCER PLAYERS. Retired lesbian soccer star Megan Rapinoe and partner Sue Bird’s production company, A Touch More, will create a series based on the novel Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner. Read more here.
QUINNIPIAC LAW SCHOLARSHIP EXCLUDES HETEROSEXUAL MALES, FACES TITLE IX COMPLAINT. Quinnipiac University School of Law is facing a federal civil rights complaint for a scholarship only open to women and LGBTQ+ students. Read more here.
UK: SUNAK AS COMMITTED TO BANNING ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ AS EVER. Britain’s Conservative government continues to view “conversion therapy” to overcome homosexual attraction or to preserve someone’s biological gender identity as “abhorrent” and will bring forward legislation to ban it “shortly.” Read more here.
‘WE’RE NOT PUPPETS OF THE WEST’: GHANA MP DEFENDS LAW BANNING SODOMY, LGBTQ PROMOTION. Ghana Member of Parliament Sam George defended a bill that would criminalize homosexual behavior and its promotion against pressure from the West to quash the legislation. Read more here.
VATICAN SAYS ‘NO’ TO ‘SEX CHANGES’ AND GENDER THEORY IN NEW DOCUMENT. The Vatican reaffirmed its opposition to sex changes, gender theory and surrogate parenthood, as well as abortion and euthanasia, four months after supporting blessings for same-sex couples. Read more here.
ONTARIO TOWN CENSURES COUNCILOR FOR OPPOSING LGBT ‘PRIDE’ FLAGS FLOWN ON MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS. Chatham-Kent councilor Rhonda Jubenville was suspended for three months without pay by her colleagues for introducing a neutrality motion to ban the flying of all flags on public buildings, except for the flags of Canada, Ontario, and the municipality. Read more here.
PRINCETON ALUMNI LGBT ACTIVIST ARRESTED ON CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES. Roy “Trey” Farmer, an activist associated with Princeton University, has been charged with one felony count of possession of child sexual abuse material, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. Read more here.
RUSSIA ADDS ‘LGBT MOVEMENT’ TO LIST OF TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS AFTER SUPREME COURT RULING. Russia has designated the “LGBT movement” on its list of 511 extremist and terror organizations, and could freeze the bank accounts of over 14,000 entities and individuals designated as “extremists.” Read more here.
HERE’S HOW BIDEN AGENCY MANDATES PRO-LGBTQ LANGUAGE ON MARRIAGE, GENDER. Employees of the U.S. Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement are directed to go through all agency messaging and remove language that presumes traditional views on gender or marriage, according to documents obtained by The Heritage Foundation. Read more here.
BIDEN TO ASK CONGRESS TO REVERSE BAN ON PRIDE FLAGS BEING FLOWN AT US EMBASSIES AFTER SIGNING $1.2 TRILLION SPENDING PLAN. The U.S. Congress has prohibited LGBTQ pride flags from being flown at US Embassies via a provision included in the controversial $1.2 trillion spending package that President Biden signed on Saturday. The White House has since declared its intention to challenge the ban. Read more here.
ISRAEL HIGH COURT ORDERS GOVERNMENT TO REDO BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR SAME-SEX COUPLE MOMS. The High Court of Justice ordered the Population and Immigration Authority to issue birth certificates for lesbian couples with the names of both parents listed as mothers of their children in a landmark ruling. Read more here.
WASHINGTON’S DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR SIGNS LAW MANDATING LGBT HISTORY LESSONS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Governor Jay Inslee signed a law mandating that by 2025, the state’s public schools “adopt inclusive curricula and select diverse, equitable, inclusive, age-appropriate instructional materials” that teach about “the histories, contributions, and perspectives” of “LGBTQ people.” Read more here.
PRO-TRANSGENDER GROUP GLAAD TRIES TO ERASE GAY, LESBIAN IDENTITY. Same-sex gay and lesbian people are just subtypes of transgenderism, according to GLAAD, a pro-transgender group that formerly pushed for civic acceptance of homosexuality. Read more here.
FLORIDA TEACHERS CAN INFORMALLY DISCUSS LGBT ISSUES IN SCHOOL UNDER NEW SETTLEMENT. The settlement comes after a legal battle regarding Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, which passed in 2022 and prohibits teachers from discussing such issues through formal instruction for kindergarten through third-grade classes. Read more here.
WYOMING BANS LGBT INDOCTRINATION, ‘SOCIAL TRANSITIONING’ IN SCHOOLS WITHOUT PARENTS’ CONSENT. Educators in Wyoming may no longer teach children about sexual orientation or gender identity without parental consent or withhold from parents signs that their child is struggling with gender confusion, thanks to a new law Republican Gov. Mark Gordon objected to yet ultimately declined to veto. Read more here.
UGANDAN COURT BACKS GOVERNMENT’S REFUSAL TO REGISTER LGBT ORGANIZATION. A Ugandan court dismissed a petition by an LGBT advocacy group seeking to compel the government to register it, a lawyer for the petitioner said. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA CITY BANS NON-GOVERNMENT FLAGS, ANGERING LGBTQ GROUPS. Voters in California’s conservative Huntington Beach approved a measure that would restrict all non-government flags from being flown on city property, prompting backlash from LGBTQ advocates. Read more here.
MEMPHIS PUBLIC LIBRARY TO ISSUE ‘GAY’ LIBRARY CARDS. The taxpayer-funded library system recently held a contest to design new homosexual pride library cards, and the two winners each received a $500 prize. Read more here.
STUDY SHOWS THREEFOLD RISE IN BISEXUAL BEHAVIOR AMONG AMERICANS. The study published in The Journal of Sex Research and using data from the General Social Survey, uncovered a significant rise in the number of Americans identifying as bisexual or reporting bisexual behaviors, especially in recent years. Read more here.
COURT IN ITALY’S PADUA RULES IN FAVOR OF SAME-SEX PARENTS. The judges ruled that children could have two mothers listed on their birth certificates. The court rebutted an order for city authorities to retroactively remove non-biological mothers from the birth certificates of 37 children dating back to 2017. Read more here.
FEDS SHELL OUT THOUSANDS ON COMPUTER LESSONS FOR LGBTQ REFUGEES, FOSTERING ‘ECONOMIC INCLUSION’ IN LATIN AMERICA. The State Department and the Inter-American Foundation, an independent federal agency, funded a trio of grants between August 2021 and October 2023 aimed at bolstering Costa Rica’s status as a haven for LGBTQ asylum-seekers, funding a project to help LGBTQ refugee entrepreneurs as well as teaching homosexual and transgender refugees how to use computers. Read more here.
MASSACHUSETTS SENATE APPROVES CHANGING STATE’S SEX EDUCATION GUIDELINES TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE. The Massachusetts State Senate approved a bill to update the state’s sex education curriculum in schools and make it more inclusive by teaching students about gender identity as well as LGBTQ+ health. Read more here.
NEW TENNESSEE BILL WOULD LARGELY BAN LGBTQ FLAGS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The Tennessee House passed a bill to ban displaying LGBTQ flags in public school classrooms. The legislation allows certain flags like the U.S. flag but restricts others, with exceptions for approved curriculum or historical items. Read more here.
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL DENIED EXEMPTION FROM MAINE’S LGBT DISCRIMINATION REQUIREMENTS FOR TUITION PROGRAM. Bangor Christian Schools, in Maine, must adhere to the state’s LGBT antidiscrimination policy to qualify for a state tuition assistance program while the lawsuit against the state continues, a federal judge has ruled. Read more here.
10 TIMES AS MANY TEACHERS SAY TRANS, CRT LESSONS HURT RATHER THAN HELP SCHOOLS. A new survey reveals a cavernous gap between teachers’ unions and the views of most parents, teenagers and teachers on whether public schools should teach LGBT ideology to students and whether parents should have the right to opt their children out of those classes. Read more here.
HOMOSEXUAL KICKED OFF LGBT TALK SHOW, THREATENED AFTER SUPPORTING ALBERTA ‘SEX CHANGE’ BAN. An LGBT talk show host has been kicked off his show and received an onslaught of vitriol from fellow homosexuals and members of the LGBTQ community for supporting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s forthcoming legislation that will ban surgically or chemically “transitioning” children. Read more here.
NEIMAN-MARCUS ACCUSED OF ONLY HIRING HOMOSEXUAL OR EUROPEAN MEN. Straight, white guys need not apply at Neiman Marcus because the high-end department store is facing internal investigations after its chief executive officer was accused of discriminatory hiring policies. Read more here.
FIRST LGBTQ MATADOR COMPETES IN SPAIN, ENCOURAGES OTHERS TO COME OUT. Spain’s first matador to be openly LGBTQ+ is encouraging others who compete in bullfighting to come out as well, insisting that “there have always been gay people in bullfighting.” Read more here.
KANSAS UNIVERSITY TURNS ASH WEDNESDAY INTO GAY PRIDE CELBRATION. Fort Hays State University turned Ash Wednesday, a day of fasting and prayer, into an LGBT pride celebration. Read more here.
IRELAND AMONG MOST LGBTQ+ INCLUSIVE COUNTRIES IN EUROPE. Ireland has ranked seventh on the top 10 list, right between Belgium (sixth) and the Netherlands (eighth) in the ranking that saw the UK come out on top. Read more here.
‘TOTAL DISGRACE’: LGBTQ NURSING COURSE CALLED OUT FOR PRIORITIZING ACTIVISM OVER HEALTHCARE. A Missouri lawmaker recently criticized a new LGBTQ nursing class at the University of Missouri, Saint Louis, where students wrote songs and books to raise awareness about the “disparities and injustices facing the LGBTQ community.” Read more here.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND: ‘PROFOUND DISAGREEMENT’ ON HOMOSEXUALITY. The Church of England’s governing body will debate adopting fresh commitments on homosexuality and same-sex couples when it meets later this month, it said while acknowledging that there remained “profound disagreement” on the matter. Read more here.
WATCH: OREO’S PARTNERSHIP WITH ‘MILITANT’ LGBT ORG CHALLENGED BY GROUP’S AD, SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL. The National Legal and Policy Center released an ad criticizing Oreo for supporting PFLAG (formerly known as Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays). Read more here.
NEW POLISH MINISTER FOR EQUALITY OFFICIALLY SPONSORS NATIONAL RANKING OF SCHOOLS BY LGBTQ ACCEPTANCE. Katarzyna Kotula officially endorsed the country’s first-ever government-backed ranking of schools based on how “friendly” they are toward the LGBTQ+ community. Read more here.
RUSSIA MAKES FIRST CONVICTIONS FOR ‘LGBT EXTREMISM’ FOLLOWING BAN. Two Russian courts have meted out the first convictions in connection with what the government calls the “international LGBT social movement” and which was designated as extremist last year. Read more here.
SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED SYPHILIS CASES SOAR TO HIGHEST LEVELS IN 70 YEARS, CDC DATA SHOW. The celebration of promiscuity and homosexuality are being cited as the causes of Syphilis cases reaching their highest level in seven decades, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control. Read more here.
WEST VIRGINIA GOP MAJORITY PUSHES BILLS ARMING TEACHERS, RESTRICTING BATHROOMS, BOOKS. The state legislature advanced bills that would allow people to sue libraries over books that offend them and restrict where transgender kids can use the bathroom at school. Read more here.
NFL ADDS WOKENESS TO SUPER BOWL WEEK, ANNOUNCES LGBT-THEMED ‘NIGHT OF PRIDE.’ The NFL announced it will host an event with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation during Super Bowl week next month in Las Vegas. Read more here.
WOKE U.S. HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER SAYS IDENTIFYING AS ‘STRAIGHT’ IS ‘OFFENSIVE’ TO LBGT PEOPLE. Seattle teacher Ian Golash is under fire for allegedly criticizing a student who identifies himself as “straight,” and who was told to use a less “offensive” term. Read more here.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DOUBLES DOWN ON ‘SEXUAL HEALTH’, TRANGENDERISM. The Director-General of the World Health Organization called on world leaders to “counteract conservative opposition” to sexual rights and to “enact progressive legislation” as a “human rights imperative,” including repealing laws that criminalize homosexuality, sex work and HIV transmission. Read more here.
WELCOME TO HARVARD, WHERE YOU CAN SPEND YOUR MONEY TO LEARN ABOUT ‘QUEERING THE WORLD’, THREESOME DATING APPS. Harvard University, which accepts vast amounts of federal funding, is offering courses that teach its students topics including “Queering Education,” “Black Radicalism,” and sexual fetishes. Read more here.
POPE FRANCIS BACKS DOWN, PERMITS AFRICAN BISHOPS TO BAN BLESSINGS OF HOMOSEXUAL ‘COUPLES.’ The president of the episcopal conferences of Africa and Madagascar has declared that the Catholic bishops in the continent will not be implementing Fiducia Supplicans’ blessing of same-sex “couples” after striking an agreement with Pope Francis, saying to do so would contradict African culture which is “deeply rooted in the values of the natural law regarding marriage and family.” Read more here.
EX-PRESIDENT OF LGBTQ ORGANIZATION ARRESTED FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES. A former president of an LGBTQ organization in Canada, Sean Gravells, was arrested for committing sex crimes with children under the age of 16 and for distributing child pornography. Read more here.
BIDEN’S USDA TIES INTERNATIONAL GRANTS TO LGBTQ COMPLIANCE. The U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to cultivate the transgender ideology on a global scale using international farm-aid programs, by attaching strings to international grants that the USDA doles out to support the Biden administration’s LGBTQ agenda. Read more here.
PROPOSALS TO BAN LGBT CONVERSION THERAPY IN SCOTLAND PUBLISHED BY GOVERNMENT. The Scottish Government aims to ban LGBT conversion therapy as part of a public consultation, raising concerns among those in the religious community, with the Catholic Church in Scotland saying there is a “worrying lack” of clarity about what the term “conversion practices” means. Read more here.
A CONNECTICUT TOWN IS THE LATEST TO BAN PRIDE FLAGS FROM GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS. Enfield, Connecticut town councilors voted 6-5 to pass a resolution banning pride flags on government buildings. Read more here.
MEDICAL JOURNAL PUBLISHES PAPER ON ‘GREYSEXUALITY.’ The Canadian Medical Association Journal recently carried an article on a supposedly lesser-known sexuality called “greysexuality” that includes people who rarely experience sexual attraction. Read more here.
MANCHESTER MOVES TO BUILD FIRST-EVER LGBTQ+ ONLY ASSISTED LIVING COMMUNITY IN UK. If approved, Manchester will build the “UK’s first purpose-built” LGBTQ+ only housing community for people over 55 years of age as the result of a proposal for the city. Read more here.
LGBT ACTIVISTS OUTRAGED BY FLORIDA BILL TO CRIMINALIZE ADULTS SEXUALLY GROOMING CHILDREN. Florida Republicans introduced new legislation that would make it a second-degree felony for a legal adult to engage in “lewd or lascivious grooming,” defined as “engag[ing] in the process of preparing or encouraging a child to engage in sexual activity…” Read more here.
LABOR COUNCIL WILL CHECK COMPANIES’ LGBT CREDENTIALS BEFORE HIRING THEM. A London council has demanded that companies in its supply chain prove their commitment to approved LGBT inclusion values. Read more here.
UN SLAMS RUSSIA’S LGBT BAN. United Nations experts have voiced serious concerns over a recent ruling by the Russian Supreme Court that designates the “international LGBT movement and its structural units” as “extremist.” Read more here.
STUDENT SENT HOME FOR ‘HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SIN’ SHIRT SETTLES SUIT. In a settlement agreement, the Overton County Board of Education in Tennessee agreed to pay $101 to Brielle Penkoski three years after she was sent home from the Livingston Academy public high school for wearing the shirt. Read more here.
ISRAELI HIGH COURT RULES SAME-SEX COUPLES ELIGIBLE TO ADOPT CHILDREN. Three presiding justices on Israel’s High Court of Justice unanimously ruled that same-sex couples are eligible to adopt children. Read more here.
HUNGARIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OPPOSES SAME-SEX COUPLE BLESSINGS. The Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has issued a statement following the Vatican’s publication of a document titled Fiducia supplicans, stating that in the future clergy will be allowed to bless same-sex couples. Read more here.
UK TEACHER GUILTY OF ‘UNACCEPTABLE CONDUCT’ FOR OPPOSING LGBT TEACHINGS, REGULATORY BODY RULES. A British regulatory agency has stopped short of banning a Church of England modern languages teacher who refused to affirm pro-LGBT teachings on human sexuality but found the teacher guilty of displaying “unacceptable professional conduct” in the run-up to her firing last year. Read more here.
FIGHTING LGBTQI+ PROPAGANDA: COALITION EXTENDS ADVOCACY TO GHANA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. Ghana’s National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values has extended its advocacy to all senior high schools in the country using dance, music, drama and poetry to educate students about the realities of the LGBTQI+ phenomenon. Read more here.
MUSLIM PARENTS PUSH SCHOOL TO EXEMPT THEIR KIDS FROM LGBT LESSONS. A national religious freedom advocacy group – the First Liberty Institute – has threatened legal action if the St. Louis Park, Minnesota Public School district doesn’t revise its policies to allow Somali Muslim parents to opt their children out of LGBT lessons in the elementary school curriculum. Read more here.
HALLMARK LEANS INTO LGBT CONTENT, VOWS MORE ‘INCLUSION’ IN 2024. With the debut of “Christmas on Cherry Lane,” Hallmark made it abundantly clear that the “heart of TV” will continue to push the LGBT envelope — despite America’s towering wave of pushback. Read more here.
SCOTUS DECLINES TO TAKE UP ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ BAN. The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to take up a challenge to Washington State’s ban on “conversion therapy” for minors, allowing a lower court decision upholding the law to stand. Read more here.
1 MILLION MOMS TO TARGET: STOP SELLING ‘GAY SANTAS’ ON CHRISTMAS. The conservative group One Million Moms has launched a petition against retail giant Target over its decision to stock LGBT-themed Christmas merchandise, including “gay Santas” and “pride nutcrackers,” months after the retail giant faced backlash for selling products by a designer of satanic-themed apparel. Read more here.
PROTEST AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETING OVER LGBT-GRANT VOTE. Students with the E.C. Glass High School Gender and Sexuality Alliance, in Lynchburg, Va., received a grant from the It Gets Better Project to create a safe space or “quiet room” at the school, but the school voted 7-2 not to accept the grant. Read more here.
PARENTS ASK APPEALS COURT TO RESTORE OPT-OUTS FOR LGBTQ ‘PRIDE’ STORYBOOKS. A group of multi-faith religious parents were in a federal appeals court fighting for the right to opt their children out of reading LGBTQ storybooks that push what they consider extremist ideology, saying it’s “forced inculcation.” Read more here.
UNDERCOVER VIDEO SHOWS PORNHUB EMPLOYEES WANT PORN TO STEER YOUNG PEOPLE’S SEXUAL IDENTITIES. Employees of Pornhub’s parent company were caught on camera touting the alleged benefits of underage kids watching pornography, and even suggesting that making videos of transgender-identifying people engaging in sex could help young people figure out their sexuality. Read more here.
TEACHER HID LGBT CLUB FROM PARENTS, VIOLATED DISTRICT POLICIES. A teacher at Red Bud High School in Illinois reportedly stated in an email thread that she concealed an LGBT club from parents by calling it “Bubbles” with the kids, which the superintendent of the school district clarified is a violation of the district’s policies. Read more here.
UGANDA ACCUSES U.S. OF PUSHING ‘LGBT AGENDA’ AFTER NEW ROUND OF SANCTIONS. Uganda’s government denounced the United States’ expansion of visa restrictions against its officials, accusing Washington of pushing an “LGBT agenda” in Africa. Read more here.
DISNEY FAMILY CHRISTMAS MOVIE ‘THE NAUGHTY NINE’ FEATURES LGBT TEEN CHARACTER, SAME-SEX PARENTS. After producing 24 LGBT-themed movies in 2022, Disney has released more homosexual fare in The Naughty Nine, which appears on Disney + and the Disney Channel. Read more here.
FATHER SUES SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR REFUSING TO DISPLAY STRAIGHT PRIDE FLAG ALONGSIDE PROGRESS PRIDE FLAG. Colorado father Nathan Feldman wanted his children’s school to display a straight pride flag, but the school refused to allow it, and his attorney blamed equity policies for “the overt sexualization of content in elementary schools nationwide.” Read more here.
DISNEY REPORT SUGGESTS WADING INTO CULTURE WAR PRESENTS ‘RISKS TO OUR REPUTATION.’ Walt Disney Company suggested during a recent Securities and Exchange Commission report that its controversial stances on social issues could endanger its bottom line by causing “risks relating to misalignment with public and consumer tastes.” Read more here.
MIT PRESSES STUDENTS AND FACULTY TO TAKE RADICAL ‘LGBTQ+ 101’ TRAINING. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is forcing students and faculty to take a training course titled “LGBTQ+ 101” that pushes radical claims like it’s an “act of violence” to use the birth name of an individual who identifies as transgender. Read more here.
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL BATTLES ‘GENDER IDENTITY’ LAW THAT FORCES HIRING OF LGBT TEACHERS, OTHER FAITHS OFFER CRITICAL SUPPORT. Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish of Grand Rapids, Michigan is gaining support from Alliance Defending Freedom, as well as groups representing Jews and Muslims in its effort to avoid being forced to hire employees who do not live out the beliefs of the Catholic church. Read more here.
GHANA BISHOPS THANK THEIR PARLIAMENT FOR ADVANCING PRO-FAMILY BILL AGAINST LGBT AGENDA. The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference (GCBC) has issued a statement praising politicians for advancing the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 from the preliminary stage to “consideration,” pushing it one step closer to becoming law. Read more here.
‘GAY IS SLAY’: SEATTLE MIDDLE SCHOOLERS FORCED TO SEND HATE MAIL TO MOMS FOR LIBERTY. Parental rights group Moms for Liberty received a package that contained cards and letters that students from a Seattle Middle school allegedly made in class, claiming that the organization was “bullying” LGBTQ youth. Read more here.
RUSSIAN MINISTRY SEEKS TO BAN ‘INTERNATIONAL LGBT MOVEMENT’ AS EXTREMIST. Russia’s justice ministry has filed a motion with the country’s Supreme Court to label what it called the “international LGBT public movement” as extremist and to ban its operation within Russia. Read more here.
TRADITIONAL COUNTRIES REJECT BIDEN PUSH FOR LGBT AT UN. Egypt, Indonesia and Uganda are among the nations opposing a U.S. attempt to impose homosexual and transgender policies in a UN resolution, accusing the Biden administration of being “divisive” and “confrontational” while ignoring their views. Read more here.
TARGET STORES PROMOTES GAYCRUELLA TO LGBTQIA SEGMENTATION STRATEGIST AMID ABYSMAL SALES FROM PRIDE BACKLASH. Target is doubling down on its promotion of radical gender theory, as the company reportedly selected a man named Erik “Gaycruella” Thompson to lead the effort. Read more here.
UGANDA KICKED OUT OF AFRICA GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITIES ACT OVER LGBT LAW. The Biden Administration has suspended Uganda, Niger, Gabon and the Central African Republic from trading with it under the terms of the AGOA. Read more here.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE HOSTS PRIDE PROM TO COMBAT ‘GENDERED, HETERONORMATIVE’ HIGH SCHOOL TRADITION. Bowdoin College hosted its first Pride Prom, welcoming students to dance with a drag queen and dress in “whatever makes your queer (and ally) selves happy.” Read more here.
19 DEMOCRAT STATE ATTYS. GENERAL OPPOSE OPT-OUT FROM LGBT BOOKS. In a brief submitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 19 Democrat attorneys general urged the federal court to uphold a decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland rejecting the request of religious parents who reside in the Montgomery County School District to have the ability to opt out of lessons using LGBT-related books. Read more here.
GEN Z’S SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN U.S. HAS DROPPED DRAMATICALLY: POLL. Support for same-sex marriage among Generation Z has fallen 11 percent since 2021, from 80 to 69 percent, according to a poll from the Survey Center on American Life. Read more here.
PRO-LGBT SWISS LAYPEOPLE THREATEN TO CUT FUNDS TO DIOCESE OVER TRANSPARENCY, SEXUAL MORALITY. Swiss laypeople have decided to cut funding to the Swiss
Diocese of Basel if the bishop does not meet their demand to move away from the “anti-life and homophobic sexual morals” of the Church. Read more here.
CONTROVERSIAL EU PROPOSAL ON PARENTHOOD COMES CLOSER. By 14 votes to 4, the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee agreed to recognize same-sex parenthood acknowledged by one member state everywhere in the European Union. Read more here.
HUNGARY SACKS MUSEUM CHIEF FOR NOT ENFORCING LGBT BAN ON UNDER-18’S AT EXHIBITION. Hungary’s government dismissed the director of the National Museum after it allowed children under the age of 18 to visit a World Press Photo exhibition featuring LGBT content that it is hosting despite a legal ban. Read more here.
LGBT ISSUES GALVANIZE DEMOCRATS’ PUSH FOR SCHOOL BOARD CONTROL. Sexually explicit pamphlets, mysterious lawn signs with barbed slogans and accusations of lying have punctuated a partisan school board race in the Philadelphia suburb of Plumstead Township. Read more here.
OPPOSITION TO SODOMY IS COLONIALISM, SAYS UN EXPERT. Traditional man-woman marriage, sodomy laws and social norms about gender are Western colonial impositions according to a UN human rights report. Read more here.
TAOISEACH DISCUSSES LGBT RIGHTS WITH SOUTH KOREA PRESIDENT. Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol discussed gender equality and LGBT rights during a meeting in Seoul, where Korea’s constitutional court recently upheld a law banning same-sex relations in the military. Read more here.
NAMIBIA: HIGH COURT HEARS BID TO OVERTURN HOMOSEXUAL SEX BAN. In a landmark case, the High Court of Namibia has heard arguments of Friedel Dausab, a homosexual man seeking the overturn of the law criminalizing same-sex behavior. Read more here.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY TELLS SOCIAL WORKERS THERE IS ‘NO RIGHT OR WRONG AGE TO ASK A CHILD ABOUT THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATION.’ A spokesperson for the county Department of Children and Family Services confirmed the policy, which requires social workers to engage in “conversations about sexual orientation, gender identity and expression” without adherence to any specific age limit. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA TAXPAYERS PAYING TO FUND LGBTQ GROUP FIGHTING PARENTAL NOTIFICATION. A judge temporarily sided with the state and granted a preliminary injunction against the parent-notification policy of Temecula Valley Unified School District until he makes a final decision. Read more here.
SWITZERLAND LIFTS EXTRA RESTRICTIONS AGAINST GAY MEN GIVING BLOOD. Switzerland amended blood donation criteria for men who have sexual relations with other men, making ineligibility criteria the same for homosexuals and heterosexuals. Read more here.
HUNGARY BANS TEENAGERS FROM WORLD PRESS PHOTO EXHIBIT, CITING LGBT CONTENT. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s nationalist government in 2021 banned the “display and promotion of homosexuality” in books and films accessible by under-18s and is now banning teens from visiting the World Press Photo exhibition featuring LBGT images. Read more here.
SOUTH KOREA COURT UPHOLDS BAN ON HOMOSEXUAL SEX IN THE MILITARY. The court said same-sex relationships could harm troops’ combat-readiness and undermine discipline. Read more here.
LGBT-IDENTIFIED SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS BUSTED IN TENNESSEE PROSTITUTION STING. Two substitute elementary school teachers in a Tennessee school district who openly identify as LGBT activists were cited by Chattanooga police for prostitution earlier this year. Read more here.
DESANTIS WANTS SUPREME COURT TO UNDO FEDERAL COURT’S PAUSE ON PUBLIC DRAG BAN. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants the Supreme Court to unfreeze a law that penalizes businesses and venues if they permit minors to witness “lewd” events such as adult drag shows. Read more here.
UK: GIRL SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL AFTER REFUSING TO USE UNISEX FACILITIES, CALLING PARENTS FOR HELP. A teen girl was suspended from her school in Gosport, United Kingdom, following her refusal to use a gender-neutral bathroom, and she was given the option of either using the unisex facility or not being allowed to go to the bathroom at all. Read more here.
